The cat-and-mouse games [Mahesh Babu and SJ Surya] play keep us engrossed enough in the first half... but the film itself starts to slide and wobble.

Spyder starts off well but the director's imagination goes overboard, only to turn a purpose-ridden plot to a piece of travesty.

Murugadoss' writing doesn't manage to give you the chills or thrills the promos promised.

What should have been an edge-of-the-seat cat-and-mouse game between good and evil turns into a movie that cannot decide between wanting to be a crackling thriller and an anything-goes masala movie.